Stay-At-Home Moms

The Surprising Benefits Of Stay-At-Home Moms

Women love it when you put a price tag on them, and a new study has done exactly that. Wondering what the worth of a stay-at-home mom is? It’s $96,261 — and not a penny more!Mint.comcrunched the numbers and determined that if you break down a homemaker’s tasks item-for-item over a 12-month span, the financial value boils down to just under $100K.To be more sexist, they could have pointed out that it’s far more than secretaries, elementary teachers and cashiers bring home.They determined that the most costly task of the housewife is to cook and buy groceries. Many men have heard the retort “I’m not your personal chef!” in a scrappy Joy Behar voice, but Mint calculates that a personal chef who will also buy and deliver groceries costs $52,260 a year. If you’re looking for someone to take care of your kids full-time, that’s another $31,200.But, seriously, putting a price tag on a stay-at-home mom is ridiculous. Sure, the daily tasks can roughly be priced out, but having your kids in the loving hands of their mother instead of an unfamiliar caretaker is priceless. Unless, of course, that mother is Casey Anthony. Too soon?